Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten (2025)

Debut installation by LionHeart

In Reverence (2025), a meditative film cut especially for the Gallery space in Art’otel Hoxton, as part of LionHeart’s Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten Installation.

Duppy Know Who Fi Frighten exemplifies the agency and accountability of awareness, a meta-cognitive call to action— using poetry, performance and film as a medium for intervention. With Sentient Brutalism (8:59 mins, 2025) and Movement of Regret (2:49 mins, 2025), LionHeart crafts reflections that covertly audit both viewer and society, pulling us into the intimate — and often unsettling labour of transformation.

LionHeart presents…

a selection of moving image work that explicitly explores the perils of people pleasing, perfectionism and our relationship with regret. Producing a series of startling and eerily seductive poetics of language and the body, which continues his practise, creating digital interventions in analogue spaces ‘addressing our fears ability to colonise possibility’ (LionHeart).

Corey Baker, Lucy Noble, LionHeart and Stevie Basaula 297.JPG

Alex Lanipekun, Nathalie Emmanuel and LionHeart 281.JPG

Malachi Kirby, LionHeart and CJ Beckford 345.JPG

Tunde Okewale, Sebastian Thiel, LionHeart and Michael Adeyeye 302.JPG

Nana Acheampong, Abi, Geoff K Cooper and Yomi Adegoke 336.JPG

Pierre Christoph Gam, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Yinka Ilori, Deborah Ababio, Zoe Allen and Muyiwa Oki 316.JPG

Safiya Lambie-Knight, Camille Lambie-Knight and Yinka Ilori 303.JPG

Photography by Getty Images (2025) at Art’otel Hoxton’s Gallery & Cinema screening room. Many thanks to the exclusive drinks sponsor for the night, The Duppy Share.